♫ Gimme Little Sign ♫ (Redux)

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I know … I played this one just over two years ago, but when it crossed my radar this evening, I just couldn’t get it out of my head and I’ve been singing it (much to the chagrin of my girls) and even almost kinda-sorta dancing to it, so … time to share the joy with you guys!  There really isn’t much trivia about this song, oddly.

I’m taking you back to 1967 tonight … 54 years … wow … where have those years gone? Few people will sit up and take notice when you say the name, Brenton Wood, but he is the singer of this song that I have never forgotten, never stopped singing at least once a week.  This song is one of only two hits Brenton Wood had, the other being Oogum Boogum Song, which frankly even I do not recall.

It was released in 1967 on the album Oogum Boogum. It was written by Wood (under his real name, Alfred Smith), Joe Hooven and Jerry Winn.  A quick and dirty search reveals almost no information about the origins of this song.  Brenton Woods inspiration, it is said, was the late Sam Cooke.

The song charted at #8 in the UK and Australia, #9 in the U.S., and only #17 in Canada.

Gimme Little Sign
Brenton Wood

If you do want me, gimme little sugar
If you don’t want me, don’t lead me on girl
But if you need me, show me that you love me
And when I’m feeling blue and I want you
There’s just one thing that you should do

Just gimme some kind of sign girl
Oh my baby
To show that you’re mine girl
Oh yeah

Just gimme some kind of sign girl
Oh my baby
To show that you’re mine girl
All right

If you do want me, gimme little sweet talk
If you don’t want me, don’t lead me on girl
But if you need me, show me that you love me
And when I’m feeling down, wearing a frown
You be there when I look around

Just gimme some kind of sign girl
Oh my baby
To show that you’re mine girl
Oh yeah

Songwriters: Alfred J. Smith / Jerry Winn / Joseph Davis Hooven
Gimme Little Sign lyrics © The Bicycle Music Company

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25 thoughts on “♫ Gimme Little Sign ♫ (Redux)”

  3. I had not expected to know that song to tell from the title and the year it was released. But yes, I know it and I like it a lot. Can it be that there exists a different (later) version?

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  5. I am generally pretty good at oldies, even when they fall outside my musical tastes but this one I have never heard before and I did not recognise the artist either.

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  6. I remember this one, but can’t say it ever really grabbed my attention. Just one of those one hit wonders. For a Brit that clip is probably more notable for the introduction: that was Jimmy Savile, who was a notable DJ here, knighted for his charitable work, but revealed after his death to have been a predatory paedophile with a huge number of victims.

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